Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam